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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"religious architecture"”.
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Reflections: Light and Structure in Religious Architecture
Light is the most sacred phenomenon and the presence of it in a place of worship is the greatest manifestation of God himself. Man can manufacture all the building materials needed to errect the greatest of structures, but only God can fill it with the light of the sun and make the materials come …
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Our mosques are US : rewriting national history of Bosnia-Herzegovina through religious architecture
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
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Memory of Islam : culture and politics in sixteenth-century religious architecture of Mexico and Peru
… in a context marked by the spread of Renaissance architecture in Europe and in the American colonies, they represent two among the most anti-classical examples of churches. Furthermore, they are interesting because their anti-classicism can be referred back to the Islamic civilization, which had …
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ΘΡΗΣΚΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΣΤΗ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ ΦΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΥΡΚΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ (1839-1912). ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ-ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΕΣ-ΤΖΑΜΙΑ
THE PRESENT THESIS INVESTIGATES THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE AT THESSALONIKI DURING THE PERIOD 1839-1912. THIS PERIOD, WHICH COMMENCES WITH THE INITIATION OF TANZIMAT AT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1839 AND ENDS WITH THE LIBERATION OF THESSALONIKI BY THE GREEKS IN 1912, IS ONE OF THE MOST …
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Espace de l'Espérance
… Judaism, and Christianity through the use of architecture. It is an experimentation with architectural forms, spaces, and elements that can be seen as potentially relatable and understandable to all three religions. At the same time, the thesis also searches for the sublime (as tends to be the …
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Building Alvar Aalto's Church of the Three Crosses (1955–58)
… and that their influence is legible in the architecture of the building itself. The thesis enriches previous assumptions which hold that Aalto’s religious projects were primarily opportunistic undertakings unrelated to religious discourse. It illustrates how the Finnish national Lutheran …
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Sacred, Circles of Light:An Examination of Six San Francisco Bay Area rose Windows and Their Relationship to a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition
… in Western Europe with the emergence of Gothic religious architecture in the mid-twelfth century. Rose windows occupy a position of symbolic significance in late medieval cathedrals and churches. They employ geometric precision to embody the Neoplatonic synthesis of the concept of cosmic order …
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A paradigm for Kemetic architectural design : the beginnings of a Kemetic architectural design language
Kemetic [Egyptian] architecture is highly recognizable. In particular, there was a distinct monumentality to its religious architecture. As well, familiar design characteristics permeated many of them. These edifices continue to be a source of discussion and debate. Opposing interpretations range …
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Prairie Spirit: Medieval Revival Ecclesiastical Architecture in Saskatchewan, 1839 - 1913
Architecture is an excellent indicator of the society that produced it. Saskatchewan’s architecture, however, has not received sufficient analysis and there are some major gaps in its history. One of the greatest gaps concerns the medieval revival styles, the Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival …
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Creating sacred space: a Spiritualist church
When contemplating the history of religious architecture several typologies become apparent. There is the refinement of Gothic cathedrals where the volume and use of material not only reinforced the liturgy but gave breath to a tempo of chant. There also is the small New England chapel steeple and …
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Legacies of Destruction: Architecture as a Nationalist Battleground in Kosovo
… the most widespread wave of violence against religious architecture on European soil since the infamous Kristallnacht riots under Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. This thesis explains this destruction through analysis of the chauvinist nationalist narratives endorsed by both Serbian and Kosovar …
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(Re)Turn to Stone
… techniques, producing a rich heritage of religious architecture, much of which still stands today. However, driven by standardization and efficiency, concrete has largely replaced stone as a structural material, reducing it to veneer surfaces while still tasked with carrying an enormous …
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The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341 : reconstructing architecture from texts
… one of the major works of military and palatial architecture in the Middle Ages, the Citadel of the Mountain (QaI'at aI-Jabal) in Cairo. It traces its development from its inception in 1176 under Salah aI-Din al-Ayyubi until it reached its definitive and most monumental form under aI-Nasir …
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Fact and sanctity : authenticating laudianism in the English Monasticon anglicanum's architectural prints (1655)
… and were thus among the few medieval religious structures to have weathered the iconoclastic storms largely intact. In the Monasticon, however, antiquarian desires to preserve were also underpinned by the political ambitions of its royalist, Laudian creators and benefactors to …
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Arquitectura religiosa tardogótica en la provincia de Burgos (1440-1511)
Esta Tesis Doctoral es un estudio de las iglesias tardogóticas de la provincia de Burgos, realizando un pormenorizado catálogo de todas ellas, muchas inéditas, con un estudio planimétrico y fotográfico. Estas construcciones se fechan entre la llegada de Juan de Colonia a Burgos, 1440, y la muerte …
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Architektura firmy Schilling & Gräbner v severních a východních Čechách
Firma Schilling & Graebner byla založena roku 1889 jako společný projekt dvou spolužáků z drážďanské polytechniky, architektů Rudolfa Schillinga a Julia Graebnera. V původním složení firma fungovala až do Graebnerovi smrti r. 1917. Slohově můžeme v zakázkách firmy sledovat proměnu od …